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U.S. automakers are facing many challenges, including foreign competition. But it's not just from Japan and Europe. There's fierce competition coming from South Korea too. And it's being felt in unexpected places, such as Alabama, where a billion-dollar Hyundai plant recently opened. Tonya Ott of member station WBHM reports. This story is the third in a series on the U.S. auto industry.

"There are people who go through life until they are 80 or 90 years old, desperate to let out their chicken. They die without doing so, which is a mistake," a Carnival reveler says.

They came from Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, seeking asylum in Israel. Many of them were raped and tortured. They didn't want to talk about it — until they came to a basket-making program.

Fifties doo-wop singer Lee Andrews died Wednesday. His son, musician Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, spoke about Andrews in this archival Fresh Air interview. Originally broadcast June 23, 2013.

Recent skirmishes in the Persian Gulf and escalating tension between the U.S. and Iran evoke memories of the Tanker War from more than 30 years ago.

Toddy is a type of palm wine made from the fermented sap of coconut flowers. But the best toddy shops in southwestern India are celebrated for the spicy, coconutty food they serve with the drink.

Makers of everything from pasta sauce to vinegar say it's getting harder to find glass bottles for their products, and it's leading to higher prices.

Angry, depressed, or flat out bored by successive COVID lockdowns, Chinese writers are adapting Western literature classics to amuse themselves.

In 2020, Laura Gao hoped to visit her birthplace, Wuhan, to see her grandparents. The coronavirus caused her to cancel. They beat the virus and say they're now "walking backward" toward the sun.

Rates of suicide among Black men and boys in the U.S. are increasing faster than among any other group. Actor Courtney B. Vance and Robin L. Smith (aka "Dr. Robin") address the crisis in a new book.